everythingisawesomescholarshipslam
Learn more about other poetry terms
We may wake up
Looking at a faded brick wall
That covers our path
From achieving it all
We may have lost hope
And closed all our doors
Believing that no one cares anymore
I am awesome.
graduated. Enrolled into cal state la
one 9 month old daughter and another on the way
some people say they are burdens no sleep no success no vacations
little do they know but they are my motivation
The world is full of pain.
Folks run around all deranged.
When life becomes too much,
Some wonder what to clutch.
Ask not why and how;
instead kneel and bow.
Call not on Earth but Jesus,
I know it's hard. Life can be unfair sometimes.
Your parents can get on your case. You feel neglected. You didn't make the cut. You didn't do as well as you wanted to do on that test. You feel that the stress is unbearable.
Wow! Where has the time gone
Freshman year was terrifying
Sophomore year was cool
Junior year was an eye-opener
And well Senior year is finally here
And I feel like an caterpiller
How we became best friends is like lightening.
I guess I never really saw it until I heard myself ridicoulously laugh because no one has ever made me snort like that before.
You know what's awesome to me? School.
You know what's even more awesome to me? High school.
The first great thing about high school is timing.
I get to get up every morning at 6 a.m., 5 if I'm lucky.
When I was just 3, a baby, a child,
My mother would tell me, of course with a smile,
Eat your vegetables dear and don’t look so sour,
For there are children in Africa starving by day and by hour.
He Left Me.
He left me before he even walked in.
He left me before I even knew.
He left me before he even said hello.
He left me before he even walked in.
Down. Up.
Sometimes I feel down.
Sometimes I feel up.
Sometimes I feel really down.
Sometimes I feel really up.
Is it true that feeling down means you can only go up?
What's love?
Is love something you eat?
What about something you drink?
Can I bake love?
What's love?
Is it our moms?
Or maybe our dads?
The papers constantly flip from Shakespeare to logarithms
Injecting steroids the books surround, trapping me in a prism
Knees quivering under the weight with no beaks so no rhythm
Johnny came to visit when I was nine
He only had the chance to just that one time
He still smiled as often as he always did
But his smile seemed almost crooked
I asked him why that was and he said:
So many hard times are falling upon us
No one can get along, what a big fuss
Money has become the main priority
Crime has been witnessed by the majority
Fear is manifested here, there, and everywhere
A mother's love should be forever and prevail to no end
On her endless love, her child can always depend
Victory
born into a world that is a first
then to find out that it favors
What makes me awesome?
My passion to learn
To love
To grow
To persevere
My past does not define me
My future is the finish line
Life is awesome,
Life is grand,
Life is like happy hands,
Life is like a baby grand,
Life is awesome,
Life is sound,
Life is like a sound machine,
Life is full of grand ole sound,
In a single day people are born, age, and die. Babies crying for the first time, a mans last breath, counting their stars, last wishes.
My sister is the person most awesome.
She makes me laugh all day, every day.
With her nothing but laughter can come.
She is hilarious in every single way.
My sister is funny, crazy and kind.
Poetry is awesome.
Facilitating the spread of unheard and unspoken ideas through poetry is awesome.
The ability to convey unspeakable feelings through words is awesome.
Stars dance playfully in the moonlights sky
With birds fly
Moon say bye
Sun smile sky
Like a beautiful flower
With energy power
Smelling rose to rose
With our nose
When you look in the mirror what do you see? You see what your eyes potray as someone who is nothing like me. Someone who isn't "equal". At least this is what society has trained our minds over the years to believe.
Press 'Play'
so that life can
begin. Be introduced into
into a new world that
you have never been.
Fast forward to a better time
and remind yourself along the way
My own thoughts form the maelstrom
The chaos that absorbs me.
The people that once pointed out my flaws
I am the kaleidoscope of colors on a breathtaking sunset
Like a graceful swan, I float through my troubles
I am golden like the rays of sunshine
Calming and tranquil
I come from light and happiness
Love is like a scrumptious truffle, filled with blissful surprises
Brings tender joy and delight
Feels warm and fuzzy inside
Melts away all troubles
From place to place
This ability allows me to move
Some people do not have it
It is not appreciated by some
And others just do not have a clue
If it was taken away from you
You would miss it dearly
The flowers of plants don’t do much.
They sit and look pretty, for all to admire.
But many people do not understand why it takes so long for the flower to bloom.
Each year
Older
Wiser
Sadly
Not taller
But hey
Prospective
Its essential
In life
To thrive
In a world
Where without
Everything is lost
Walking to where the water meets the sand is a suspenseful moment.
Will the water be cold or will it be warm?
Will I get in or take a step back?
Walking through life's thought,
how much does it take to hurt the worse,
pain of my childhood rushing by "ouch",
so many sigh, just thinking about which time is the best time to cry,
The tiny glints of light
they shine a blinding bright
So far they seem to be
that they never see us
but we dream about them
The galaxies abundant
with suns, planets, moons, asteroids, and stars
The heart beats like a steady drum,
Bringing with it a childs laugh,
Down the road a dog barks,
As the wind whistles by,
Memorys of yesterdays storm litters the roads,
I stop to pick up a fallen branch,
Day after day problems arise,
The debt collectors call isn't much of a suprise.
There's no milk in the fridge,
and the baby is crying.
Your son missed the bus,
and the car keys are hiding.
I remember the high pitch scream
I heard from downstairs
It tickled the hairs in my ears
And tightened my blood flow
I ran downstairs and saw Mama cry
The heat from my hot tears kissed my cheeks
One day I recieved a gift, i realized giving was awesome...so now i give to my community
I decided to give a flower to my mother, and she smiled so bright
What is there in the world today?
That makes us pause and find our way.
Nature's charm escapes our mind
Yet it's really not that hard to find.
We need to search, to look, to see
My eyes are opened by the sunshine
gazing through my morning window.
The view is awesome.
My family is bustling
as they are rising to a new day.
The sound is awesome.
The month of October is very special to me because it gave me life
My mother and me are the daughters of October
Her the 22nd and me the 7th
I am my mother's only daughter and the youngest of her three children
met you in the fourth grade
back when we were just ten
spent half my life with you
every step since
True happiness
Come out, leave the awful stuff aback
I want love and happiness
See how happy you make me feel
So powerful i feel for more
I love you and want you in my life
True happiness
The need for attention, the need for support
Giving more than putting in
Riding the relationship more than horses
Attempting to help, willing to fall
A book can be diminutive or tall.
The print can be massively large or small.
Never judge a book by its cover,
She had long beautiful, flowing shiny hair
Eyes that would hypnotize you if you were to look into them
She had long beautiful, flowing shiny hair
Eyes that would hypnotize you if you were to look into them
Caramel complexion,
Indigenous gaze.
Heart pumping out historias,
our ancestors live.
Brown girl you're gorgeous,
A treasure on your own.
Every time we open our mouths
And thoughts begin to just pour out,
IDEAS are traded and brought to light
Listen closely as I tell
The story of a man who lived in a shell
He lived inside and never ventured out,
But his own humanity he began to doubt.
When he tried to turn and take control,
This poem is written in memory of my great-grandmother, Edna R. Mapp. She was awesome!
When the dew from the grass wakes you and you feel alone
Know that I will be there
Happiness is truly awesome
It has no limits or bounds.
Happiness is something shared by everyone
No matter how sad one may feel, they can find sadness in the tiniest things.
Happiness is contagious
Love between the pages is a poet's dream.
I write a love song for you. You compose a melody for me.
Because, you see between the pages is where I love you the most.
I am so peaceful,
So comfortable in my pain.
It seems like such a scary thing,
But it all feels the same.
Because I know if I were happy,
I would never understand
The realities of life-
Freedom
Stand up for what you believe in
Fight for what you believe in
Even bleed for what you believe in
We are all born with it as we cry our way on to the American soil
Freedom
I am not very big
Yet the weight of how much I miss you has broken the scale.
I want you back
As someone submerged in the deepest sea wants a final breath,
Everything is awesome
Everything is nice
Everything can make a difference
In somebody’s life
So when you’re sad or scared
And life gets really tough
Just think of something awesome
They say god gives the hardest battles to his strongest soldiers
Truth be told life’s a battle when you’re getting older
In his name I pray, in his name I pray
No need for luck no need for magic I put my faith in him
Life;
It piles on and on and on
Breaking back, achy knees
The strong connection felt with your comforter
Pleading for you to wrap yourself in it
Your shield from the real world.
Thinking you where different
Thinking you were exactly what I needed
Thinking you were perfect for me
But who ever thought thinking could be so wrong
Thinking we were the cutest couple ever
Missed that one point on my test that would've made my score an A,
I failed, but won.
Suffered through a depression before my freshman year of college,
I failed, but won.
Jazz like Doodle dee bopp bopp doo doo.
Or maybe a rap about love or catching the flu.
Or a slow jam about a special one who makes you happy.
Or what about a pop song about winter or how your day was crappy.
A poem dedicated to someone awesome:
Dreams were a gift to escape my constant fear.
Enter some abstract world where I wasn't scared.
Remember when you were a child?
Running free outside,
When your aspirations were wide.
Swinging on the swings
and pretending you had wings.
Watching cartoons
on a sunday afternoon.
On this day she had been born,
On this day she had said her first words to loving her mother,
On this day she had took her first steps,
On this day she had stayed up til night playing with her sister,
You can't keep me down
you can't count me out
I am a heavyweight fighter
that refuses to be knocked out
Though I may stumble
and sometimes hit the ground
I jump back up vigorously
The night brings difficulty and sometimes pain
just like when the sun is covered or drowned by the rain
You feel that there is no where to turn no one to blame
But some how the storm came and settled right in your lane
You may often find that life can bring
An unusual amount of distressing things
But what’s important is that you sigh
Smile
My smile
Is cover art
For the bigger picture beneath
& I pray you don’t discover the true me
My lips are silhouettes of pain
A cabalistic crevice that stifles
Times get tough,
Friends come and go,
Life can be rough,
But it is you who will glow.
The sun will still rise,
the clock will still tick,
you just have to take everyday as a prize,
There are dogs whistling outside of the Monastery Mountains.
Water crashing into rocks, like the wind yelling at the sun during winter— pushing it further and further away from reality— your reality.
1041.7 miles every hour, is the speed at which the earth rotates But that speed seems a lot slower when you stop and realize all of things that are great.
In mere seconds all can change. We can lose ourselves and yet we still remain. People enter our story a chapter at a time, some heroes and others villians. We all look for love but but sometimes it finds us. Fear can rule us and so can need.
The beauty in what we see ,started before there was a "you" and "me"
Before society burned fuels and cut away our trees.
Before the air we breathed was filled with air of pollution and debris.
From the air we breath
to the gifts we recieve
To the sun that shines down,
on our small, little town
Everything is Awesome
We have family everywhere,
Moms who comb our hair.
spoken but not heard
Heard but not listened too
Seen but paid no mind
Only to realise no one cares
Guess that's life....
it's hard to be aware
of the moving world around
the whipping and rushing and tripping and gushing
it's hard to stay with your feet on the ground
and it's much too easy to lose that footing
You know what's awesome?
The days you took us to the park in the little green wagon and time seemed like it didn't exist
When you walked me down the block and waited for me to get on the bus and when it was cold
Stages of Eternity
By: Carly Hufford
Countless light bulbs with iridescent hopes lighting the dim night,
reminding me to live is to soar beyond the scrapes the pavement gives me.
“Mama,
As she gazed upon the dark night sky,
A small twinkle caught her eye.
Slowly closing her eyes, and taking a deep breath,
She makes her wish.
Too her suprise,
A firmiliar face appears in her mind's eye.
I laugh at the sorrow,
I smile at the pain;
Knowing that from pity
There's naught for me to gain.My thoughts may turn to darkness;
My enemy may be me;
But slowly, I am learning
Your skin, it breathes
Your hair, it speaks,
Your mouth it loves.
You speak gods into the minds of men
and your silence shakes the Earth that supports you
Its hard to feel awesome, when pain lingers
I
Life knows no boundaries it’s free, like a bird.
Free like the winds.
Hence the ocean flowing.
II
Life can be lived short, like a miser.
But mind you, no wiser.
III
A Letter to My Future Self
Dear Future Me,
If you are reading this letter,
That means you are in your early twenties.
Fresh out of college
Man meets woman with a sword in hand
Like shooting stars caused by fate they clashed
Falling into territory they didn't know where to land
Original plans were shaken and not trashed
